On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 09:53:21AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > + git-series: track changes to a patch series over time > + PHP licence applicability to the Debian archive > + New #packaging IRC channel > + SourceForge uscan redirector & subdirs > + LeaseWeb offers discounts to Debian Developers > > git-series: track changes to a patch series over time > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Josh Triplett announced[1] a new git tool, git-series[2], to manage patch > series with git, tracking the "history of history". git series tracks > changes to the patch series over time, including rebases and other > non-fast-forwarding changes. git series also tracks a cover letter for > the patch series, formats the series for email, and prepares pull requests. > > This makes it easier to collaborate on a patch series, distribution > package, backport, or any other development process that includes > rebasing or non-fast-forward development. > > Debian package maintenance tends to have this exact family of problems: > maintaining a set of patches to upstream code, rebasing those patches on > new upstream versions, reorganizing/refining/adding/dropping patches, > having individual patches merged upstream, and backporting changes *from* > upstream. > > If you're interested in developing workflows for package maintenance with > git-series, please follow up to debian-devel. More detail is available[3]. > > -- Josh Triplett > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00535.html > [2] https://github.com/git-series/git-series/ > [3] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160812035657.c72mu75x5bmygvva@x > > PHP licence applicability to the Debian archive > ----------------------------------------------- > > The FTPMasters have published specific guidance[4] to allow PHP 3.0+ > licensed works in the main archive. > This allows software published under the license to be included, but with > specific guidance to the wording in the copyright file. It also serves to > ensure compliance with the ''PHP'' trademark. > > -- Neil McGovern > > [4] https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html > > New #packaging IRC channel > -------------------------- > > There have been some folks who aren't satisfied with the level of signal > to noise on the #debian-mentors IRC channel, mainly around people joining > who are not aiming at creating policy compliant packages for upload to > the Debian archive. People looking for help with private packaging, > packaging for derivatives, packaging for their external repos and so on. > As a result I've created the #packaging channel on OFTC to help such > folks and reduce the noise on #debian-mentors. If you don't mind helping > such folks out, please join us! If you have such questions, please join > #packaging instead. > > -- Paul Wise > > SourceForge uscan redirector & subdirs > -------------------------------------- > > Some upstreams have identically named tarballs in different > subdirectories in their SourceForge file area. The Debian uscan > redirector for SourceForge now emits extra links that include the full > path to upstream files. This means that you now can choose which > particular upstream subdirectories that you want to match files from. > Here is an example for the boost package: > > version=3 > opts="uversionmangle=s/_/./g,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg$//" \ > http://sf.net/boost/ .*/[.\d]+/boost_([\d_]*)\.tar.bz2 > > -- Paul Wise > > LeaseWeb offers discounts to Debian Developers > ---------------------------------------------- > > One of the major sponsors behind snapshot.debian.org, LeaseWeb[5], is now > offering discounts on their services to Debian Developers. > > LeaseWeb provides dedicated servers, bare metal servers, private clouds, > virtual servers and content delivery networks. LeaseWeb offers discounts > to Debian Developers. > > DDs should send emails to sa...@us.leaseweb.com (for North America) or > sa...@nl.leaseweb.com (for Europe) from their @debian.org address > referencing "debian.org membership special offer". > > The specific amount of discount is dependent on the service requested and > the availability of resources (eg, number of dedicated servers available > at the time of the request). > > Other benefits[6] are also available to Debian members and contributors. > > [5] https://www.leaseweb.com > [6] https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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cheers,
Holger
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